GW2 Clockwork Chaos August 20 update notes

GW2 patch notes for the Clockwork Chaos patch which is released on Aug 20, 2013.

August 20 Content Release NotesLIVING WORLDClockwork ChaosThe nefarious villain, Scarlet Briar, has made herself known to Tyria! Chaos ensues as she unleashes her clockwork minions across the world! Closing Ceremony

Witness the high point of the Queen’s Jubilee! Attend the ceremony and hear the Queen’s Speech in the Crown Pavilion of Divinity’s Reach. It’s sure to end with a bang.

Clockwork Minions Invade

Scarlet’s clockwork minions are invading entire zones across Tyria.

Watch the World Event UI for new invasions.

All overflow maps created within 10 minutes of the start of the invasion will host a concurrent version of that hour’s event.

Complete additional waves of the invasion for an increasingly lucrative map-wide reward.

Map-wide rewards are limited to once per account, per day, per map. For example, players who claim the map-wide reward for an invasion in the Gendarran Fields will only be able to claim invasion rewards in other maps until the following day.

Complete all waves of an invasion to unlock a bonus battle with Scarlet.

Defeat Scarlet for a daily world-boss reward of two guaranteed rare items.

All possible maps will be invaded at least once per day.

Invasions will not occur in Orr, Southsun Cove, or maps suited for character levels below 25.

After the Clockwork Chaos release, the invasions will continue at a less frequent pace.

Scarlet’s Funhouse

Scarlet has claimed and occupied a prominent structure in Tyria and twisted it into a demented fun house.

Help Emissary Vorpp at the Crown Pavilion reverse-engineer Scarlet’s portal technology to find a way into her fun house.

Defeat Scarlet to restore the fun house to its proper form.

Ongoing Festivities

The Crown Pavilion and Queen’s Gauntlet will close for maintenance on September 3. Look for their return in the future!

Achievements

Two achievement categories have been added to the Living World achievement group:

Clockwork Chaos contains all release-related achievements and the meta-achievement for this release.

Emissary Vorpp’s field assistant contains achievements related to the Living World story for this release. It serves as a guide to completing key achievements in the Clockwork Chaos category.

Completing the Clockwork Chaos meta-achievement awards the player an Infinite Watchknight Tonic. Completing this meta-achievement requires players to complete 18 achievements from either the Clockwork Chaos category or the dailies related to the Clockwork Chaos release.

Exotic Drop

Play Clockwork Chaos content for a chance at the exotic Twisted Watchwork Portal Device Recipe.

Crippling Talon: The projectile thrown will now travel the full distance when traited with Off-Hand Training.

Thief:

Infiltrator’s Signet: Updated the signet’s effect to properly follow the thief when activated.

Flanking Strike: Removed a redundant damage fact.

Warrior:

Seismic Leap: Fixed a bug so that this skill will now properly be a blast combo finisher.

Rampage—Dash: Fixed a bug that allowed the character to move further than intended.

Whirling Axe: Updated the skill fact to include a radius.

Banner of Discipline, Banner of Strength, Banner of Defense, and Battle Standard: Updated these skills to properly display their duration. Battle Standard now displays the casting range of the skill.

Banner—Sprint: This skill will now properly strike a target when it reaches the target while underwater.

Kill Shot: Fixed a bug so that this skill will no longer drain the energy of a target that reflects it.

Racial:

Asura

Pain Inverter: Replaced the range skill fact with a radius one to more accurately reflect the skill’s function.

Structured Player vs. Player

Minimap is now always centered and cannot be panned or zoomed.

Secondary objective icons for tournament maps have been repainted for clarity.

Map art for tournament maps have been repainted for clarity.

Downed icons no longer overlap profession icons.

Spectate camera icons no longer steal mouse focus from capture point icons when not visible.

Profession icons are now a fixed size regardless of map zoom level.

Player icons now show names in their tooltip.

Removed the capture point text from the map.

All capture point icons now properly show their name in the tooltip.

World vs. World

The Outnumbered buff now provides a 25% boost to all WXP gained.

WXP rates have been increased across the board. All activities that award WXP should now reward much more.

The Siege Decay buff is no longer visible to hostile players.

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORENew Items and Promotions

The Zodiac Weapon Skins are now available for purchase from the Black Lion Weapon Specialist. This weapon skin set is inspired by the classic Guild Wars Zodiac weapons. For one month only, until September 16, these weapon skins cost only 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket. Claim Ticket Scraps can be acquired by opening Black Lion Chests. Black Lion Chest Keys are available in the Gem Store in the Consumable category for 125 gems each or a pack of 5 for 450 gems.

Mini 3-Pack Set 2 is now available in the Gem Store in the Minis category for 300 gems. Open this pack to get three random minis from an entirely new set of miniatures! Each pack contains two common and one uncommon mini from set 2. Collect all 46 new minis! The Mini 3-Pack Set 1 is also still available for anyone looking to complete their set 1 collection.

The Permanent* *Twisted Watchwork Finisher is now available in the Gem Store in the Upgrades category for 500 gems. This upgrade gives players unlimited, account-wide access to this twisted finisher.

The World vs. World Experience Booster is now available in the Gem Store in the Booster category for 150 gems. This consumable grants 50% more WvW experience for one hour.

The amount of karma granted from consumable karma items has been increased. Karma boosts no longer affect the amount of karma gained from consumable items.

Increase on consumable is ~50%.

Does karma nerf affect all +% karma boosts (+% on pendant etc) or only karma booster?

wheniwasyoung

karma from consumables is increased, all karma boosts food, etc no longer affect karma gain from consumables (this is not a nerf this is rebalance so you don’t have to get karmic infusion, etc)

youkai

So… no nerf on champions farm?

DontMatter

GOOD maybe you trolls that insist on saying its a friggin exploit will SHUT UP NOW!

youkai

Since when I said anything like that? I made so much gold that I’m happy It’s still up, but looking it in a objective point of view it’s a little economy breaking IMO.
It’s clearly not an exploit since it’s not an “error”, but at the same time is not really that good for the economy.

axyd

Well said good sir, maybe now them trollers will force a fail on these new events. …pk man…wish I could pk em trolls, still need like 400 for achievement

mike

Whats the size of this new patch?

Ewa Frączek

170MB

mike

Ty Ewa

Shadow

Dulfy, cause you’re so amazing, would you be able to include the size of the updates and patches with your posts? Love you work as is, but this additional info would help me out a lot. For now thanks Ewa.

Phage The Blighted

Need more information about the quests following the queens speech. Clockwork chaos guide.

I don’t quite understand, so all the ticket skins are now in the trading post? I didn’t read anything about that although i know they said they’ll make them available, are they only available for a limited time? Can you acquire them by other means then buying them from the trading post? so many questions, so little time.

http://dulfy.net/ Dulfy

Fused/Dragon’s Jade etc weapons are now tradeable on the trading post yes and that is a permanent change.

Bogya

Did you edit the post at the Black Lion Trading part? Because i remember something else from there. Something like there will be 10 day sales and the unlimited harvesting things may come back?

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